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Bookbug app proves successful for Scottish Book Trust

Families have listened to more than 400,000 songs and nursery rhymes on the new Bookbug app, the Scottish Book Trust has revealed. Read more

B7 Media signs audiobook deal for Rowson mystery series

B7 Media has announced an audiobook deal for a new historical crime series by Pauline Rowson. Read more

Pottermore and Warner Bros form new joint venture

Harry Potter digital business Pottermore and movie studio Warner Bros have set up a joint venture to “widen and deepen” how they exploit the franchise... Read more

Hodder launches non-fiction audio series on 'good' bad habits

Hodder & Stoughton has commissioned a new non-fiction audio series explaining how bad habits could be good for you, set to launch with a contribution... Read more

Springer Nature calls on publishers to adopt new OA role

Springer Nature’s chief publishing officer Steven Inchcoombe has proposed a new approach to research publishing, which will see publishers move from being “passive enablers” of open access to... Read more

Wiley to buy Knewton

Wiley is to buy courseware and adaptive technology provider Knewton. Read more

McGraw-Hill/Cengage merger creates major textbook competitor

The merger of education publishers McGraw-Hill and Cengage will create the sixth largest publisher in the world with a combined 2018 revenue of $3.22bn: $1.597bn for... Read more

Norwegian reading app to launch in the UK

Poio, an app created to help children learn to read, is launching in the UK in June. Read more

Digital Science invests in AI platform Writefull

Holtzbrinck technology company Digital Science has invested in Artificial Intelligence-based language platform Writefull, the company's first significant investment in AI. Read more

EU copyright law passes final hurdle

The Council of the European Union has approved the EU’s new law on copyright, making digital platforms like Google and Facebook legally responsible for content... Read more

CUP in OA partnership with University of California

Cambridge University Press has entered into a three-year transformative agreement with the University of California (UC), in what is said to be UC's first such... Read more

Weekly E-Book Ranking: Hunter takes down This is Going to Hurt

Cara Hunter's No Way Out (Viking) has defeated Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt (Picador) at the top of the Weekly E-Book Ranking, after... Read more

Springer Nature publishes its first machine-generated book

Springer Nature has published its first machine-generated title, a chemistry book offering an overview of the latest research in the rapidly growing field of lithium-ion... Read more